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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
curved
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lines
▪ My father thinks they should be in curved lines.
▪ A crossing of curved lines softens the hypnotic.
▪ They show up as curved lines on a photographic film.
▪ Even at that resolution and that many dots, curved lines can appear jagged, albeit under a magnifying glass.
▪ A group of too many curved lines, without the structural rigidity of straights, tends to become sweet and sentimental.
member
▪ After gluing, the curved members were cut to shape on the band saw then finished with the spokeshave.
▪ That is to say the curved members, such as ribs, were built up of naturally curving wood, chosen to have the right shape.
space
▪ One has to specify what class of possible curved spaces should be included in the sum over histories.
▪ The Cartesian coordinates which result from this transformation describe a space which is tangential to the curved space at the point selected.
▪ Application of the strong equivalence principle provides the basis for a definition of parallel transport in curved space time.
▪ An equivalent view of this effect is that the result of parallel transport in a curved space depends on the path taken.
▪ This suggests an unambiguous procedure for transporting a local vector across curved space time.
▪ This class consisted of curved spaces without singularities, which were of finite size but which did not have boundaries or edges.
▪ Riemann, who was a student of Gauss, initiated the analysis of curved spaces with more than two dimensions in 1846.
▪ The situation is very different in a homogeneous, isotropic, curved space with K negative.
surface
▪ It is worth recalling that in Section 3.3 the analogous question was addressed for transport over a curved surface.
▪ The shortest paths joining points a finite distance apart on a curved surface are generally not simple straight lines.
▪ The backing can be cut to give the shape you want and can also be used around a curved surface.
▪ Upon me rested heavy cold weights and under me was a smooth, curved surface like the bottom of a gargantuan test-tube.
▪ Straight lines, in the usual sense, can not be drawn on curved surfaces or in curved spaces.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An airplane wing is curved on top and flat on the bottom.
▪ Shaving mirrors are slightly curved in order to magnify the image.
▪ The bird uses its long curved bill to dig out worms and small insects.
▪ The entrance is formed by two curved rows of large stones.
▪ The knife had a heavy curved blade.
▪ The temple's roof is curved, in the Thai style.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A crossing of curved lines softens the hypnotic.
▪ Economically, thinner ply is preferable, but needs strengthening to prevent curved steps.
▪ He had a cruel, clever, merciless face, with a big curved nose and very bright, hard eyes.
▪ His almost bare chest and the high, curved horns he wears accentuate his height and his slender build.
▪ The floodwater, carrying branches and driftwood, was over the roadway on the curved iron bridge.
▪ The girl's body was curved and slender and my hands were straying to the ribbons on her bodice.
▪ The stone interior of the church held darkness as a curved shell holds water.
▪ The ventralmost arm spine may be curved or sabre shaped.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
curved

curved \curved\ adj.

  1. not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of straight.

    Note: [Narrower terms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed; falcate, sickle-shaped; flexuous; incurvate, incurved: recurved, recurvate; semicircular: serpentine, snaky: sinuate, sinuous, wavy: sinusoidal]

    Syn: curving.

  2. (Botany) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk; -- of a plant ovule. Opposite of orthotropous.

    Syn: campylotropous.

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Wiktionary
curved

  1. Having a curve or curves. v

  2. (en-past of: curve)

WordNet
curved

adj. not straight; having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend; "the curved tusks of a walrus"; "his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard" [syn: curving] [ant: straight]

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Usage examples of "curved".

Then it was executives, whose gold watch chains, adangle with tiny email-boxes, phones, torches, snuffboxes, and other fetishes, curved round the dark waistcoats they wore to deemphasize their bellies.

It swooped and curved, arcing over the tops of the buildings and careering in spirals, a dimly glimpsed display of virtuoso aerobatics, a shadowy circus.

All three were curved scimitars made by the annourers of Shah Jahan at Agra on the Indian continent.

When, as in the above cases, radicles encountered an obstacle at right angles to their course, the terminal growing part became curved for a length of between .

The nutty little curved beak looked as if it were capable of doing damage, but Archimedes looked closely at the mouse, blinked at the Wart, moved nearer on the finger, closed his eyes and leaned forward.

Aztecs, the Arkies had metal weapons, the favorite being an implement with a long handle ending in a curved blade on one side and a spike on the other.

Saryn, looking up from where she smoothed a curved backpiece for what looked to be a chair.

Turning around from time to time, to keep her bearings, she noticed the wall by the evesmol resembled a curved sheet of window glass, vividly displaying the outside reddish bronze escarpment of the caldera.

Jon Becken seemed comfortable steering the boat so Nevyan let him and knelt down on the curved deck.

The curvature often amounts to a rectangle,--that is, the terminal part bends upwards until the tip, which is but little curved, projects almost horizontally.

Eyes the color of black diamonds sparkled back at her, lips that would make a sculptor weep curved reassuringly.

She lifted a brow, and he marveled at the way her brows curved up at the ends.

When Tupelov at last emerged from the flagship, alone, he could see the vast, curved cagework of the Taj soaring away from him in at least three spatial dimensions.

It curved away from a curving street called Camelia Lane, and kept right on curving, sometimes to the right and sometimes to the left.

Here and there, the silvery foliage of a clump of candlenut trees contrasted with the dark green of the bush, and scattered coconut palms curved up gracefully to their fronded tops, sixty or seventy feet above the earth.